Microsoft got shafted by Nvidia. The high failure rate of the Xbox 360 was mostly Nvidia's fault.

The PS2 was the best selling console for a long time. The Xbox didn't gain much traction in Japan, so as well as missing out on that market, if you like Japanese games it's not a great platform.

All engineering is influenced by other engineering. Most aircraft look more or less the same because that's the state of the art most efficient shape.

This company got the first methane powered rocket to orbit.

For manual labour perhaps, but for clerical work, and especially for complex work like engineering, 36h/week of high productivity would be exceptional.

Around here the police usually won't come out to surveillance alerts, unless a human has manually reviewed them first.

It's how the cops use every new bit of tech. When DNA came in, they were arresting people on very flimsy DNA evidence that later turned out to either be flawed or easily and obviously explained away.

Happened when IP addresses became their new toy. Still happens with fingerprints, which, despite what CSI may tell you, rarely present an exact match.

In theory, that's an argument for adding a "bathroom break" button to groupware more than for RTO. Managers would get metrics to find employees who misuse the break button in excess of what labor law encourages employers to allow.

Ultimately, that depends on the nature of the position. Do you work call center or something else?

I'm in development, not operations, so my manager tends to be more accepting of my habit of dropping offline for an hour at a time to avoid the 23-minute interruption penalty associated with complex problem-solving.

I do think disappearing people is wrong, obviously, although I'm not sure that's exactly what happened to Ma. Keeping in mind the damage it would have done to him to be publicly arrested or rebuked, and the fact that later the Chinese premier convinced him to move back to China, and then he attended various events including one with Xi... Well, it's not quite how it was portrayed in the Western media. Not good, but we don't really know what happened.

There has to be a balance somewhere between that and the EU's not-quite-strong-enough regulation of tech companies.

Say an employee with attention deficit or sensory processing disorder uses Teams on a separate device as a way to improve productivity on their primary device. Refusal to accommodate these conditions can get an employer in trouble under the ADA and foreign counterparts. If you end up fired for this, ask an equality lawyer about your options.

All that matters is if Trump believes it was Made in USA or not.

I really doubt that Chinese rocket scientists are simply copying without understanding.

The first step to surviving somewhere else is locating a somewhere else that is better than trying to live on Earth after it has been hit by an asteroid. Unfortunately Mars fails this test. In fact we could get hit by an asteroid, have a nuclear war, have the worst possible global warming, and living would still be better on Earth than Mars.

Thanks, that's interesting. Sounds good, corporate responsibility.

How is that different from Western countries? They are expected to follow the law, the larger ones have lawyers on hand, and if they don't comply they can be shut down in the worst cases.

You can argue that it's different to have a government appointed compliance officer, but even that happens when companies royally screw up in Europe. The Netherlands recently appointed someone to run NXP, and the UK has been re-nationalizing failing rail franchise businesses.

In some cases they just developed Western university research into actual products, something we should have done but failed to. Some of the battery tech comes to mind.

There was a significant amount of work to develop it into a high end product, but because they had the certainly of long term government support for EVs and battery technology, they threw money at it and engineered solutions.